Robert Johnson Says China Becoming Part of the International Reserve Currency SDR ‘Long Overdue’

Out of the box thinking from a finance legend
Valentin Schmid
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On the surface, Robert Johnson’s career looks like the stereotypical case of somebody who has made it in finance.

Educated at the country’s elite schools of Harvard and MIT, and having worked as a managing director at George Soros’s Quantum Fund in the 1990s, and having held a prominent role in Washington, his résumé could not be more established.

However, Johnson never took his achievements for granted and always kept on pushing further, looking for the real stuff behind the facades of modern finance and politics.  

As a result, he has produced an Oscar-winning documentary,”Taxi to the Dark Side," exposing torture practices within the U.S. military. He also founded and heads the nonprofit The Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), where he managed to step outside the box of partisan politics and economic theory to find some pragmatic solutions to our future problems.

Epoch Times spoke to Johnson about China’s new role in the world as well as its domestic challenges, Europe’s faltering welfare system, and America’s income inequality. Expect the unexpected. 

Robert Johnson, president of The Institute of New Economic Thinking (INET)
Robert Johnson, president of The Institute of New Economic Thinking INET
Valentin Schmid
Valentin Schmid
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Valentin Schmid is a former business editor for the Epoch Times. His areas of expertise include global macroeconomic trends and financial markets, China, and Bitcoin. Before joining the paper in 2012, he worked as a portfolio manager for BNP Paribas in Amsterdam, London, Paris, and Hong Kong.
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